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Jackson Bliss

Jackson Bliss's short stories and essays have appeared in Tin House, Antioch Review, Kenyon Review, Fiction, Quarterly West, Fiction International, ZYZZYVA, Stand, Notre Dame Review, Connecticut Review, Quarter After Eight, African American Review, Kartika Review and the Huffington Post UK, among others.

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American rock stars have the same black dots as French poets, Italian artists, Polish composers, and flamboyant British novelists.
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